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• Ericsson, AWS and Hitachi buddy up for 5G smart factory trial  

  29-08-2023 18:15
  Kit vendor Ericsson and cloud giant AWS teamed up to build a 5G powered machine vision system in a Hitachi factory to help spot defects in the production line.
  The private 5G infrastructure trial took place at Hitachi Astemo Americas’ electric motor vehicle manufacturing plant in Berea, Kentucky in the US. It focussed on how real-time digital video, AI, and edge-to-cloud technologies can enable automated fault detection.
  It paired Ericsson Private 5G with the AWS Snow Family to power machi
  
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• The promise of international terrestrial cables for resilient global connectivity

  29-08-2023 17:30
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Gavin Rea, Chief Technical Officer at Gulf Bridge International (GBI), examines the increasingly important role terrestrial cables play in the global connectivity mix.
  Having spent 30 years in the subsea cable industry, it’s very easy to forget about the remarkable transformation the sector has experienced. Like anything, cables possess a rich history
  
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• IKEA store on Oxford Street covered in a giant blue bag

  29-08-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The former Top Shop at Oxford Circus that is currently being converted into an IKEA store has been covered in one of IKEA’s (in)famous giant blue bags.
  Or at least, the scaffolding has been decorated to look like a blue bag.The store is also however taking longer to convert from Top Shop to IKEA, as it was due to open later this year, but will now open in autumn 2024 instead.
  When it opens, they say that it will include a showroom, market hall and a Swedish Deli. And doubtless lots of teal
  
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• St Paul’s Cathedral has reopened the Whispering Gallery

  29-08-2023 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Closed following an accident in 2019, the famous whispering Gallery inside St Paul’s Cathedral’s dome has reopened to the public.
  Looking up at the Whispering Gallery from the ground floor
  The gallery closed in April 2019 after a teenage boy died after falling from the gallery. This was the second death in two years caused by people falling from the gallery.
  Following the deaths, the Cathedral reviewed how it could improve safety, and they’ve been working on installing a wire g
  
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• CityFibre’s full fibre rollout hits 3 million premises

  29-08-2023 13:52
  Fibreco CityFibre’s UK full fibre network now passes over 3 million premises, with 2.6 million ‘ready for service’ to ISPs.
  The firm announced the network had passed 2 million premises in September 2022, so that’s a rate of roughly a million new premises over the course of a year.
  CityFibre began the construction of its network in 2018 and has now achieved ‘primary build complete status’ in Milton Keynes, Stirling, Peterborough and Coventry. In its most mature
  
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• Rakuten Mobile crawls past the five million subscriber mark

  29-08-2023 13:20
  Japanese greenfield MNO Rakuten Mobile has reached a subscriber milestone but is still a long way from where it needs to be.
  The five million mark was hit yesterday, we’re told, which isn’t a bad effort for a company that entered a very mature mobile market from scratch in April 2020. But just a bit of additional context reveals that market leader NTT Docom has over 80 million subscribers, while KDDI and Softbank both have over 40 million.
  Following Rakuten’s last earnings upda
  
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• Apple’s priciest iPhone is the most shipped model in the world

  29-08-2023 12:32
  Despite ongoing global economic headaches, the top-end iPhone 14 Pro Max was the most popular smartphone globally in the first half of this year, according to analyst Omdia.
  Apple flogged a total of 26.5 million units of the model during H1 2023 according to Omdia’s Smartphone Model Market Tracker. The iPhone 14 Pro Max is Apple’s most expensive model in the latest 14 series released last September, selling for between $1,099 to $1,599.
  Apple also took the second spot with the Apple
  
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• Italian government approves state piece of the NetCo action

  29-08-2023 12:23
  The Italian government has finally approved its own involvement in the protracted takeover of TIM’s fixed line assets.
  While the approval itself was largely a formality, given the MoU signed earlier this month, statements accompanying it shed a bit more light on the Italian government’s thinking on the matter. The announcement has only been published in Italian, but Google Translate is fairly trustworthy on European languages.
  Giorgia Meloni, the current Italian Prime Minister, has a
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Rosemary Triangle, N1

  29-08-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is about as pocket a pocket park as you are likely to find, being a tiny patch of land on the corner of an Islington road junction that’s been taken over by a local community.A decade ago, it was a fairly unremarkable plot of greenery with a bit of grass, a tree and some rough bushes, but then was taken over by the local community as part of a local “forgotten corners” project. Forgotten Corners are small areas of public green space that are planted and maintained by keen
  
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